Greetings! WOC’s board and staff
wish you health and happiness in this new year. First and foremost, we
want to extend a huge thanks to everyone who responded to our Fall Donor
Campaign with generous contributions. Your membership support and charitable
gifts are what make it possible for us to work diligently to protect our
unique Wyoming landscape and its inhabitants. Quite simply, we could not
do it without you. And to our new members, Welcome! Your financial support will help
us continue a number of programs and launch several new projects and activities
in the coming year:
• An ongoing WOC priority is safeguarding
the biological integrity of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). This
includes protecting the region’s national forests from inappropriate oil
and gas development, timber sales, road building and motorized recreation.
All of these activities threaten critical habitat for lynx, grizzly bears
and wolves, as well as important big-game winter range, migration corridors
and birthing areas. We are particularly committed to preventing oil and
gas drilling and logging in the Brent Creek/Dunoir region northwest of
Dubois, the only area in Wyoming where lynx, wolves, grizzlies and elk
share the same habitat.
• WOC will keep working to
protect the unique and spectacular Red Desert from intensive oil and gas
development that threatens important sage grouse habitat and vital big-game
winter range.
• We will continue our campaign to
keep Wyoming waters clean. Water is vital in this high and arid state for
drinking, fisheries, wildlife populations, agriculture and manufacturing.
We’re committed to protecting watersheds, water quality and groundwater
throughout the state.
• Our Environmental Quality and Justice
program, launched in 1998, is working to protect Wyoming citizens from
hazardous wastes and toxic pollution. We are tackling such problems as
massive groundwater poisoning from Amoco’s defunct oil refinery in Casper
and a proposed high-level nuclear waste dump near the Wind River Reservation.
• New program areas for the
coming year include reforming environmentally damaging grazing practices
on public lands and tackling the threat to northeast Wyoming’s water resources
posed by the massive coalbed methane boom in the Powder River Basin.As always, we will keep you informed
of our progress on these important issues, both through Frontline Report
and special alerts.
Thanks again to all of you for your
tremendous support and generosity. As one WOC member exclaimed in a note
to our office, we promise to "keep fighting the good fight!"
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